From Fox News: The FBI came to the conclusion that Butler, Pennsylvania, would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone — after a massive team doggedly pursued interviews with thousands of foreign and domestic individuals as part of an unprecedented global investigation into the 2024 shooting of President Donald Trump, the bureau told Fox News Digital as part of a lengthy, behind-the-curtain rundown of the probe.
FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and a senior official with direct involvement in the Butler, Pennsylvania, investigation sat down for an unprecedented interview with Fox News Digital for more than an hour Thursday afternoon at FBI Headquarters.
Patel told Fox News Digital that the investigation was a “Day One priority” for the bureau.
“Dan and I have been on this since we got here eight months ago. We not only had to maintain the chain of command to President Trump, but we had to remind the world that President Trump was the victim — one of the four victims — on that day,” Patel said. “There are victims’ rights rules that apply to him, and they don’t get erased because he is the president.”
Patel also said, “We fully briefed the president, as a victim of this case, at the White House, providing him with all of the details of our investigation, and the president was satisfied with the results and where we left it.”
Bongino emphasized, “We have reviewed this case over and over — looked into every nugget. We have spoken to the families, the president — there is no cover-up here.”
Patel also said that the FBI was able to access every single device and review every communication belonging to Crooks. Any reporting to suggest the contrary is false, he added.
Another FBI official told Fox News, “There is no foreign connection in this case. There is no individual that is outside U.S. borders or inside U.S. borders that had any role in directing him, inspiring him, or assisting him in any way & that includes foreign governments.”
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EXCLUSIVE: I sat down for an hour+ w/ @FBIDirectorKash @dbongino & a senior FBI agent to talk #ThomasCrooks probe.
The FBI says Thomas Crooks acted alone. FBI interviewed thousands of foreign & domestic individuals as part of the global investigation https://t.co/LeugSw9PzU
— Brooke Singman (@BrookeSingman) November 21, 2025
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